GEORGIA MILITIA 1835 Militia Camden Co Centreville Rifle Company
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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1836.
ACTS of the General Assembly of the STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1836.
RIFLE COMPANIES.
1836 Vol. 1 -- Page: 230
Sequential Number: 135
Type: AN ACT,
Full Title: To incorporate a Volunteer Company, under
the name of the Centreville Rifle Company.
Sec. 1st. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Georgia in General
Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority
of the same, That whereas a Volunteer Military
association has been formed in the Town of Centreville,
in Camdem county, under the name and style aforesaid,
the objects and purposes which are stated to be, for
the defence of said Town, and the surrounding country:
And whereas, the said persons so associated under the
name and style aforesaid, are desirous of being
incorporated.
Sec. 2d. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That the several persons, members of said
association, and others who shall hereafter become
members thereof respectively, and the successors,
officers, and members of the same, shall be, and they
are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name
and style aforesaid, and by said name shall have
perpetual succession of officers and members, with
power to make, alter, change, and amend such by-laws
and regulations as may be agreed on by the officers and
members of said association: Provided, such by-laws and
regulations be not contrary to the laws and
constitution of this State. That they shall be exempt
from all battalion and general musters at Jefferson, in
said county, except such as the ordered by, and under
the immediate authority of the Governor and Commander
in Chief: Provided also, that nothing herein contained
in this act, shall be so construed as to exempt the
said association from the liability of other militia of
this State, on any emergency which authorizes calling
on the militia for the suppression of insurrection, or
of repelling invasion: Provided further, that nothing
herein contained, shall prevent the repeal of this law,
whenever the Legislature shall deem it proper so to do.
Sec. 3d. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That the Governor is hereby authorized to
furnish said Company (upon the requisition made by the
commander of said Company) the arms and accoutrements
upon the same terms, as those granted to other
volunteer companies of the State of Georgia.
Sec. 4th. And be it further enacted, That all laws and
parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the
same are hereby repealed.
JOSEPH DAY,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT M. ECHOLS,
President of the Senate.
WILLIAM SCHLEY, Governor.
Approval Date: Assented to, Dec. 23, 1836.